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2011 Shefqet Avdush Emini with Embassy of Kosovo in Den Hague Amsterdam,
November 2011, Ina Eskes MA of Art history
Shefqet Avdush Emini, an international recognized artist, is born in Davidovc in Kosovo on 2 June
1957. He studied Visual Arts as a young man at the Art Academy in Pristina (Kosovo) and worked, after finishing his education,
as an artist and art teacher in several towns in Kosovo. Since two decennia, when war broke out in Kosovo, Shefqet Avdush
Emini is living in the Netherlands, together with his family. As an artist and art teacher he is able to live and work all
over the world, though he always will be connected with his roots to Kosovo. In several works of his hand you will be able
to discover these roots and his mixed feelings of living abroad. Shefqet Avdush Emini is an academically educated artist who
developed his own style, his own ‘signature’, which made him famous. The list of exhibitions of his artworks in
museums and art galleries worldwide is long. Besides, he is regular invited to join art symposia where local and international
artist do come together to create art and get inspired. Shefqet is also connected to the Filarski Academy, a private Academy
in The Netherlands founded by the artist Marian Filarski, as a teacher for master classes in painting.
In 2011 Shefqet
Avdush Emini has been asked to
present his artworks (paintings and sculptures) in two separate
solo-exhibitions
in the Netherlands, the first one took place in Amsterdam, the
second one in Den Hague. These two exhibitions will be presented
in this
review.
Exhibition paintings
and sculptures at gallery Diversity & Art, Amsterdam
2 September 2011-
1 October 2011
Gallery Diversity & Art, an intimate gallery
located in the old heart of Amsterdam, is founded by Liesbeth
Schreve-Brinkman,
after a meeting with AIDA the Netherlands, an organization which does advise
artists after they did
leave or escape their countries for reasons like war,
politic, or censure. Diversity & Art gives these artists an exhibition
platform.
The selection of artists takes place in cooperating with AIDA the
Netherlands. Diversity & Art gives excess to all
kind of genres of artists
with their own cultural background. The mission of Art & Diversity is to
show and share
these artworks to public, to increase our idea of art in
cultural diversity.
From the 2nd
of September till the 1ste of
October paintings and sculptures made of baked bronze varnish clay of Shefqet
Avdush Emini
have been presented for public. This exhibition was officially
opened by René Mendel, director of Interact; a Film Production
Company for
television and multimedia. As a filmmaker of a television program of
‘portraits’ of artists
René Mendel pointed out the influence of the public
opinion by media, and how appreciation for artists can be achieved.
Art itself
can influence a person as well of course, at several levels. Diversity & Art wants to make visual,
mental
and social contact possible between artist, art and public, to achieve a
better intercultural understanding of art. Shefqet’
artwork is about people.
You can ask yourself for example: who are these people? Are they friends, family, anomies, or
memories
of people of the past, of Kosovo? And what is going on in their minds?
Photo: opening exhibition Diversity & Art, Amsterdam, September 2011.
Solo-exhibition in
the Atrium of the city hall of Den Hague, organized by the embassy of Kosovo in
Den
Hague
1 novembre-12 November 2011
The solo-exhibition in the Atrium of the city hall of
Den Hague, a building
which was designed by the American architect Richard
Meier, with an atrium of 4500 square feet, was a great opportunity
for Shefqet
Avdush Emini to present his work. Lots of people do walk in and out, from
Mondays till Saturdays, for work
or private reasons. The exhibition took place
in close cooperation with the embassy of Kosovo in Den Hague. It was an
innovating
challenge for the embassy in Den Hague to promote Kosovo’ identity
as newest country in Europe by showing Shefqet
Avdush Emini artworks, their
excellent artist from Kosovo, living and working in the Netherlands.
The official
opening
of the exhibition took place at the 4the of November 2011, which was a
successfully event. Most people who have seen the
exhibition mentioned the
paintings as: very beautiful and very interesting and one person mentioned that
it is unbelievable
that such a great artist is coming from such a small
country.
Photo: opening exhibition in the Atrium, city hall of
Den Hague, November 2011. On the right hand side: Shefqet
Avdush Emini, in the
middle: Mr. Ehsan, manager international sales Ikea the Netherlands, on the
left hand side: Shefqet’daughter.
Photo: opening exhibition in the Atrium, city hall Den
Hague, November 2011.
His Art
Shefqet
Avdush Emini is an all-round artist who
creates baked bronze varnish clay sculptures, drawings and last but not least
paintings.
In both exhibitions there have been presented several paintings of
his hand. Having a look at these paintings means to
make a mental journey on
many levels. His style of painting, the compositions he makes, the way he is
using colors in
combination with his compositions, the way is using paint
itself as a material (oil on canvas, acryl on canvas), and the
stories he want
to tell. His painted portraits and figures do often not have titles, which mean
that Shefqet gives you
a change to make up your own thoughts and feelings. It
also gives you an opportunity to travel away in time or place. Sometimes
his
work might remind you to one of the famous girls of the Dutch master Vermeer,
to Mozart, to people in pain, or grieve,
people coming from Kosovo, coming from
wherever? All kind of moods do come
along your eyes and thoughts. His paintings
are multi-interpretable. Like they
want to tell you something about the past and the present. Besides this you can
notice
Shefqet’ energy while painting, using his paintbrush as a medium for his
own inner world. He is a painter with flair,
which can be interpreted as
(abstract) expressionism, and gives in combination with his classical touch a
very interesting
and lively result. You can also notice Shefqet’ knowledge of
the Dutch masters like Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh
and the Cobra group, like
Corneille for example. In Shefqet ’art is a colorful world of people, roots,
moods,
tradition, and life coming together.
 Untitled: oil on canvas, 40 x 50. 2007  Untitled: oil on canvas, 54 x 54. 2010 Acryl on canvas: 100 x 150. 2011
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